Horseshoe



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DENNIS CAREY, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,157, dated April 24., 1883.

Application filed March 7, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DENNrs CAREY, of Lynn, in the county of Essex,State otMassachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Horseshoes, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is an isometrical perspective view of my improved shoe; Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section, showing the construction of the sockets; Fig. 3, a vertical transverse section taken through the plate; Fig. 4:, a perspective view of the plate detached; and Fig. 5 is a rear view of the shoe applied to the hoof.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

My invention relates to that class of horseshoes which are employed in shoeing horses with tender or pinched feet; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which a simpler, cheaper, and more effective article of this character is'produced than is now in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation, its extreme simplicity rendering an elaborate description unnecessary.

In the drawings, A represents the body of the shoe, and B the plate. The plate is rectangular in form and provided with two downwardly-projecting side flanges or lips, to a, at its rear end, these flanges being adapted to titv into corresponding sockets m, formed in the upper portion of the heel of the shoe, near its inner edges. The plate is slightly wider at its forward than at its rear end, its corners or edgesff being supported on the inner beveled edges, 2, of the shoe. This bevel passes around the front portion of the shoe, but terminates at a: on either side, the edges 6 being straight from m to the forward ends of the sockets m. A portion of the inner edge of the shoe opposite each of the sockets m is cut away, as seen at d, the cut corresponding in depth with the thickness of theplate B, so that when the plate is in position, as shown in Fig. 1, its upper side will be flush with the upper side of the shoe. The plate is slightly narrowed at o, and flares or widens slightly from o tof, so that it will pass between the straight inner edges, Z, and its forward end rest on the beveled edges 2, the bevel also corresponding in depth with the thickness of the plate, so that the plate when in position will be flush its entire length with the upper side of the body of the shoe.

In the use of my improvement the shoe is attached by nails in the usual manner, the frog y of the horses foot resting on the plate B; but the pressure on the frog is relieved by a filling, h, consisting preferably of tar and oakum, which is compactly inserted between the frog and sides of the hoof at the rear end of the foot. This filling, which is thickest at the rear of the foot and gradually tapers toward the front, is retained in position by the plate and tends not only to relieve the pressure on the frog but to spread the'hoot and cure pinched feet. The filling may, if desired, be partially inserted before the shoe and plate are applied,-and the rest inserted after the shoe is attached, being driven in forcibly over the plate between the frog and sides of the hoof, so as to be permanently retained.

It will be obvious that when the shoeis worn out the plate B may be detached and used with another shoe of the same s ze, as very little wear comes on the plate.

I do not confine myself to extending the bevel z entirely around the fore part of the shoe, as a short bevel or depression may be made for the corners f of the plate to rest on, if desired, and accomplish the same result, so far as the plate is concerned, that is accomplished by the bevel, as shown.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is- The improved horseshoe herein described, the same consisting of the body A, provided with the bevel z, and sockets m, the inner sides of the sockets being cut away, as shown at d, and the detachable plate B, provided with the flanges (0, adapted to fit said sockets, and widened at its forward end to rest on the bevel a, said parts being combined and arranged to operate substantially at set forth.

DENNIS CAREY. Witnesses (J. A. SHAW, L. J. WHITE. 

